Hostap and zoomair4100

Thu Jul 10 17:01:50 EDT 2003

Hi
    I am glad that I was of some assistance in that matter. A week ago, 
I was in the same position as you were :)

MS

Vaidehi Kasarekar wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks Madhusudan.! The documentation was really
>helpful.
>
>I wanted my laptop to configure as a client.
>My only mistake was, i was not associating wlan0 with
>my wireless network. 
>
>Associating the card with essid of my accesspoint
>solved my problem. Though a simple solution, being a
>newbei, it never stiked my mind...
>
>I always thought that its coz of my network
>configuration settings or coz of some
>incompatibilities between firmware versions or because
>hostap cant be used in a pure client mode, or prism2
>firmware issue, or my kernel and pcmcia versions are
>incompatible.....the list was unending and i was
>confused. :)
>
>PHEW!! My old firmware SMC card 2632W also worked with
>the current version of hostap. 
>
>I am happy, it worked with SMC. I still have to try
>with zoomair though.
>
>thanks again!
>-Vaidehi
>
>--- Madhusudan Singh <chhabra at eecs.umich.edu> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I have Netgear Wireless MA401, which is also a Prism
>>card. Consult :
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~chhabra/netgearwireless.html
>  
>
>>I hope that helps.
>>
>>MS
>>
>>PS : 44444 means that your card is trying to connect
>>to an AP but not 
>>getting through.
>>
>>Vaidehi Kasarekar wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I am really confused regarding Hostap. Please
>>>      
>>>
>>help!!
>>    
>>
>>>I am trying to install HostAP on my laptop. No
>>>      
>>>
>>luck.
>>    
>>
>>>I was told to upgrade my firmware, or try a
>>>      
>>>
>>different
>>    
>>
>>>card. So I tried Zoomair 4100.
>>>
>>>My iwconfig wlan0 is giving the following output:
>>>[root at vaidehi ~]# iwconfig wlan0
>>>Warning : Device wlan0 has been compiled with
>>>      
>>>
>>version
>>    
>>
>>>13
>>>of Wireless Extension, while we are using version
>>>      
>>>
>>12.
>>    
>>
>>>Some things may be broken...
>>>
>>>wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"test"
>>>         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access
>>>Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
>>>         Bit Rate:2Mb/s   Tx-Power:-14 dBm  
>>>Sensitivity=1/3
>>>         Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off  
>>>      
>>>
>>Fragment
>>    
>>
>>>thr:off
>>>         Encryption key:off
>>>         Power Management:off
>>>         Link Quality:0/92  Signal level:-90 dBm 
>>>Noise level:-90 dBm
>>>         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx
>>>invalid frag:0
>>>         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:364 
>>>      
>>>
>>>Missed beacon:0
>>>
>>>According to the articles given at
>>>      
>>>
>>http://trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/hostap_20021012.shtml,
>>    
>>
>>>I should not get a link quality of 0/92. My MAC ID
>>>      
>>>
>>is
>>    
>>
>>>also not 44:44:44:44:44:44.
>>>
>>>According to one of the articles on the hostap
>>>website,
>>>      
>>>
>>(http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison),
>>    
>>
>>>zoomair is a prism2 card. However, when my kernel
>>>      
>>>
>>is
>>    
>>
>>>detecting it, it is saying that it is a lucent
>>>      
>>>
>>based
>>    
>>
>>>card.
>>>
>>>My routing table is:
>>>[root at vaidehi ~]# route
>>>Kernel IP routing table
>>>Destination     Gateway         Genmask        
>>>      
>>>
>>Flags
>>    
>>
>>>Metric Ref    Use Iface
>>>129.93.68.128   *               255.255.255.128 U  
>>>      
>>>
>> 
>>    
>>
>>>0      0        0 eth0
>>>192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U  
>>>      
>>>
>> 
>>    
>>
>>>0      0        0 wlan0
>>>127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U  
>>>      
>>>
>> 
>>    
>>
>>>0      0        0 lo
>>>default         kickapoo-2.cs.u 0.0.0.0         UG 
>>>      
>>>
>> 
>>    
>>
>>>0      0        0 eth0
>>>
>>>My /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
>>>      
>>>
>>settings
>>    
>>
>>>are:
>>>DEVICE=wlan0
>>>BOOTPROTO=static
>>>ONBOOT=yes
>>>BROADCAST=192.168.255.255
>>>NETWORK=192.168.0.0
>>>NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>>>IPADDR=192.168.0.1
>>>
>>>If i ping to my machine, by wlan interface, I get
>>>      
>>>
>>the
>>    
>>
>>>output as:
>>>[root at vaidehi ~]# ping -I wlan0 192.168.0.1
>>>PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) from 192.168.0.1
>>>      
>>>
>>wlan0:
>>    
>>
>>>56(84) bytes of data.
>>>64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
>>>time=0.151 ms
>>>64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
>>>time=0.093 ms
>>>(As i am specifying the interface, i think, it wont
>>>      
>>>
>>go
>>    
>>
>>>by the loopback interface)
>>>
>>>However using libradiate, if i do wlansniff, i do
>>>      
>>>
>>not
>>    
>>
>>>get any output. ??? Also my iwconfig wlan0 shows
>>>      
>>>
>>link
>>    
>>
>>>quality as 0/92 ?? Why is this happening?
>>>
>>>Any ideas, hints, pointers would be REALLY useful.
>>>I am now confused between firmwares, Is there a
>>>difference between Lucent firmware and Prism2? How
>>>      
>>>
>>to
>>    
>>
>>>find firmware version no, my card is using? Is
>>>      
>>>
>>hostap
>>    
>>
>>>supporting my card? Are my configurations right??
>>>Where am i going wrong???
>>>
>>>My dmseg output is as follows:
>>>th0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at
>>>      
>>>
>>address
>>    
>>
>>>1.
>>>eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as
>>>      
>>>
>>default
>>    
>>
>>>eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10,
>>>00:a0:cc:c7:84:12.
>>>eth0: Media Link On 10mbps half-duplex
>>>Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
>>> options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
>>>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
>>>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:01.4
>>>Yenta IRQ list 00b8, PCI irq11
>>>Socket status: 30000411
>>>cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
>>>cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding
>>>      
>>>
>>0x378-0x37f
>>    
>>
>>>0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
>>>cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
>>>cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
>>>hostap_cs: hostap_cs.c 0.0.0 2002-04-24 (SSH
>>>Communications Security Corp, Jouni Malinen)
>>>hostap_cs: (c) SSH Communications Security Corp
>>><jkm at ssh.com>
>>>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
>>>hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
>>>prism2_config()
>>>hostap_cs: setting Vcc=50 (from config)
>>>CISTPL_MANFID: 0x0156, 0x0002
>>>Lucent-based card
>>>Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
>>>IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
>>>io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
>>>hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io
>>>0x0100-0x013f
>>>hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wlan0
>>>prism2_hw_config()
>>>prism2_hw_config: initialized in 9425 iterations
>>>wlan0: NIC: id=0x8003 v1.0.0
>>>wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
>>>wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v0.8.3
>>>wlan0: prism2_open
>>>ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
>>>ip_conntrack (1471 buckets, 11768 max)
>>>Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>      
>>>
>>-- 
>>Madhusudan Singh
>>Graduate Student Research Assistant,
>>Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
>>Science,
>>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109,
>>United States.
>>
>>2437, EECS Bldg.,
>>
>>    
>>
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